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To what extent was the Caliphate the source and sanction to the legal authority of the Sultans of Delhi?

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  • The Fourteenth Century

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The Abbasid Caliphate, in classical Islamic political theory, was the sole legitimate fountainhead of temporal authority in the Muslim world — no ruler, in principle, could found an independent state without the Caliph's sanction. By the time the Delhi Sultanate emerged, however, the Caliphate itself was a shadow institution, and its relationship to Delhi's rulers…

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  • The Theoretical Claim and Its Practical Hollowness
  • Iltutmish: The Solitary Case of a Sultan Actively Seeking Sanction
  • The Khaljis: Confidence Enough to Dispense With It
  • Muhammad bin Tughluq and Firuz Tughluq: Recognition as Crisis Management
  • The Later Sultanate: Nominal Survival of an Empty Form
  • Assessing the Extent
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